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* M; E. CLARK GUIDE' Filed March 11l 1922 `:si sheets-sheet 1 INVENTOR WITNESS: ATTORNEY M. E. CLARK GUIDE Filed March 1l. 1922 5 Sheets-Sheet 2 Fly@ mvEN-rcmv ATTORNEY Nov. 6 1923.

. M. E. CLARK 'GUIDE Filed March l1. 1922 FQIZ.

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UNITED STATES MAURICE E. CLARK, OF GRENADA, MISSISSIITPI.

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'Application led March 11, 1922. Serial No. 543,004.

To all 'whom may concern.'

Be it known that I, MAURICE E. Umax, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grenada, in the county ot' Grenada and State ot Mississippi, have invented new and useful Improvements in Guides, of which the following is a specification` My present Invention has reference to a tracker or film guiding plate for motion picture cameras and motion picture projector machines and motion picture printing ma.- chines. 1

Myobject is to produce a tracker plate by which the film will be positively guided in its passage thereover without danger or liability ot side motion.

A further Objectis to produce a itracker plate having a view aperture and raised tracks to the sides of the aperture, while outward of but in a line with the tracks are guides which are laterally adjustable with respect to eachother but which are positively held adjusted.

A still further object is to produce a tracker plate or guide plate for picture films having a view aperture, tracks to the opposite sides ot the aperture and laterally cxtending grooves or depressions outward of the tracks, said grooves or depressions re-y ceiving therein lugs on the. inner faceof guide members, means securing the guide members to the plate in a manner to permit ot the adjusting of said guides with respect to each other, and the lugs on the under face ot' the guide members being equi-distantly spaced whereby should' wear occur on the inner or active edge of the guides the same,

upon the removal of the securing means,

may be reversely positioned on the plate.`

AA further object is tov produce `a tracker plate having a view aperture, tracks on the opposite sides pf the aperture, lugs outward of the tracks, and guide members 'having laterally extending grooves or'depressions which receive the lugs, means being provided for securing the guide members to the plate in a manner to permit of the adjustment ot said guides with respect to each other, and

wherein the construction is such that should wear occur upon the inner or active edges of the guides the same, upon removal ofthe securing means Inay be reverscly positioned on the plate.

The 'foregoing objects may be accom plished by a construction, combination and operative arrangement of parts such as is disclosed by the drawings which accompany and whiclrtorm part ot this specification.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective view of a film guideor tracker plate in accordance with this invention.

Figure 2 is anI approximately central transverse sectional View through the same.

' Figure 3 is a detail transverse sectional view. in a line with the securing means for one of the guides, on an enlarged scale..

Figure l is a'sectionalview approximately on the line le-4 of Figure 3.

Figure 5 is a planvieW of the tracker plate.

Figure 6 is a perspective view of one of the guides.

Figure 7 is a view substantially similar to Figure 3, but illustrating a modification. y

Figure 8 is a, plan view of the tension shoe which may be employed.

Figure 9 isV a sectional view through the improvement illustrating'the tension shoe applied thereon.

Figure 10 is a perspective view of one of the angular head members.

Figure 11 is a plan view of the tracker plate, illustrating a slight modification.

Figure 12 is a sectional view, approximately similar to Figure 4, but illustrating a slight Inodification.

Figure 13 is a perspective view of one of the guides, illustrating a further moditication. i

The film guide or tracker plate is, inthe drawings, broadly indicated by the. numeral 10. The plate is provided with a view aperture 11, and the said plate, to the sides of the aperture is provided with raised parallel portions 1Q that provide the tracks over which the film travels. The plate, to the opposite and outer sides of the track 12 have equi-distantly spaced laterally extending somewhat elongated grooves 13 and alsok los kwith depressions 18 that surround the openbers are fastened directly on to the plate 10, independent of the .frame supporting plate, the screws 19, the heads 20 of the said screws being received in the reamed or depressed portions 18.

'lVith my tracker plate, it will be noted that the lilm tracks vare elevated above the plate proper, and that the guide members may be adjusted toward or away from'each other so as to slightly contact the edges of films of varying widths. Preferably the guide members do-not contact with the outer sides of the tracks. By providing a space between the guides and tracks even wear by the film is imparted to the latter. Should wear occur upon the active edges of either of the guides the screws may be removed and the guides reversed by being turned end for end, the lugs on the said` guides, as previously stated, are equi-distantly spaced and will therefore be properly received in the equi-distantly spaced grooves 13. When so arranged the openings 14; in the plate will also properly align-with .the screw openings in the guides.

It will be further noted that in addition to turning the guides end for end, they can be Vtransferred from one side of the plate to the other when wear occurs on the active side of the plate. Y

Because of the obsolete type of tension shoes on motion picture machinery I have found it necessary to employ a tension shoe such as is illustrated in Figure 8 and the remaining figures of the drawings. The tension shoe comprises spaced parallel members v which aredesigned, as illustrated in Figure 8 of the drawings to be arranged in direct contact with the film when the latter is received on the tracker plate.V The shoes are indicated by the numeral 30, and are held in spaced relation to Veach other by suitable connecting elements 31. Each shoe 30 has at its center an upstanding flange 31 provided with an angular head 32. Each. of the flanges 31 has an opening therehas a comparatively large opening therethrough, the second arm having a restricted threadedv opening therethrough. This last mentioned opening is engaged by the threaded end 34 of a screw member 35.

The body 'of the screw is non-threaded, but

has its end kerfed, as at 3G so that the I threaded end 3l thereof may be screwed in the referred to threaded opening in the elbow., Each elbow has a flange 37 which has either secured thereon or formed therewith a spring 38. As disclosed in Figure 9 of the drawings, these springs exert a tension between th'eelbows and the gates 39 of the moving picture machine, and conse.- quently force the Vshoes 30 against the film 4:0..

In Figure 11, the tracker plate 10 is substantially similar to that previously4 described, the Vsame having its outer flanges l5A provided \witli slots 46 and with studs 47. As .disclosed in Figure 12 of the drawings, thestuds are designed to be received in depressions 48 in the guide members L19. In addition to the transversely arranged elongated depressions 4:8 the guide members 49 are provided with similar transversely arranged elongated openings 50 `there through which register with the slots L16 in the tracker' plate, and through these openings the bolt members 20 pass.

Having describedA the invention, ,I

v1. In a device for the purpose set forth, a tracker plate having a view opening, elevated tracks to the opposite sides of the opening, and reversible and laterally ad-v justable guide members on the plate to the outer sides of thetracks.

2. Ina device for the purpose set forth, a tracker plate provided. with a view opening and having elevated tracks to the opposite sides of the opening, said plate having equi-distantly spaced laterallyv arranged somewhat elongated grooves to the outer side of the tracks, guide members having lugs received in the grooves, means securing the guide members to the plate, and said means permitting the adjustment -of the guide members with Arespect to each other.

In testimony whereof I allix my signature.

MAURICE E. CLARK. 

